a. [f. prec. + -IC.]
1. Of or pertaining to atomists or atomism.
1809. Coleridge, Friend, I. 121. It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis.
1877. E. Caird, Philos. Kant, II. xi. 443. The atomistic doctrine of the existence of a vacuum.
2. Consisting of separate atoms.
1874. Sayce, Comp. Philol., vi. 214. Instead of starting with atomistic individuals, we must start with … the community.
1875. D. Simon, trans. Dorner’s Pers. Christ, I. II. 123. To conceive the world … as an atomistic multiplicity without unity.
